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The
WIL People
Director's Profiles
Richard Allison B.Agriculture Chairman
Richard is a founding director Waimakariri Irrigation and believes
irrigation provides for strong and sustainable rural communities. His challenge is to do all that is possible to
provide reliable, economic and sustainable water to shareholders.
His wife, Jeanette and three daughters manage
Preschools in Rangiora and Christchurch and lease their farm at Fernside at the end of the scheme.
Richard is Deputy Chairman of the MainPower Trust. |
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Andrew
Mehrtens
Andrew's working career has always had an agricultural focus,
firstly as a farm worker running his own agricultural spraying business, leasing a farm, and then purchasing land. Prior to
the start of irrigation he and his wife Julie were sheep and crop farming 240 hectares. They converted to dairying in 1998
and they are now milking 500 cows on 320 hectares near Oxford.
Andrew is on the executive of the Malvern Vet Club and is Junior
Vice President of the Oxfords Agricultural and Pastoral Association. |
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Graeme Sutton
is in partnership farming two dairy units under irrigation. Having been brought
up on a dairy farm he has been farming all his working life in dairy sheep beef and deer.
Graeme has had vast experience in farming politics and governance of Agri and community businesses,
particularly cooperatives.
He is currently Chairman of Irrigation NZ, and Chairman of NZ Industry Training Organisation. |
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Mr David Viles B For Sc. David has twenty years experince in the forestry sector including a period in North Canterbury forests - his last position as a forest manager was South Island
Manager of NZ Timberlands, an SOE. Then followed ten years in the port industry, the last seven of which were as Managing Director of Lyttelton Port Company. Now a consultant director whose roles include Executive Director of Enterprise North Canterbury, Chair of Prime Building Compliance and director of a private investment company. |
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Mr Gavin Reed
Gavin owns & manages a 225 ha property at Bennetts near Oxford along with his wife Marie & three children.
The farm is run as a sheep & cropping unit with approximately 120 ha of the property in a variety of cereals & small seeds.
Having lived on the property all his life, Gavin has been a shareholder in the scheme since the beginning.
He is actively involved and held postions in a number of local organisations including Oxford Farm Discussion group,
Oxford A.& P. Association and Oxford Rural Drainage Committee. |
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Mr Geoff Spark Bachelor Commerce and Management (Lincoln University). Geoff is a third generation dairy farmer in the Waimakariri District and is currently a Fonterra Networker. He is married to Rochelle and they have three children. Together they farm over 450has including support land. Irrigation is an integral part of their business hence Geoff's interest in becoming involved in the governance of WIL. |
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Staff Profiles
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Phill
Reid (Operations Manager) was an agricultural contractor in Oxford
for 15 years before shifting to Rangiora with his wife Gloria
in 1981. He began with the Waimakariri-Ashley Water supply Board
in 1977, transferred to the District Council in 1987 and has
been involved with the irrigation scheme since its inception
in 1988. He transferred to WIL from the District Council in
1998 and was appointed Operations Manager at that time. |
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